{"id":11905,"date":"2011-05-17T21:13:29","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11905"},"modified":"2011-05-17T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T20:13:29","slug":"first-footage-from-ari-folman-the-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/05\/17\/first-footage-from-ari-folman-the-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"First footage from Ari Folman&#8217;s The Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/An-image-from-Ari-Folmans-upcoming-The-Congress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11906\" title=\"An image from Ari Folman's upcoming The Congress\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/An-image-from-Ari-Folmans-upcoming-The-Congress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Footage surfaced last month of Ari Folman&#8217;s next film <strong>The Congress<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After winning huge acclaim for his stunning animated debut <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/10\/20\/lff-2008-day-6\/\">Waltz With Bashir<\/a> (2008), Folman has adapated Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s 1971 sci-fi novel <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Futurological_Congress\">The Futurological Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The book deals with a man visiting a congress at a Hotel in Costa Rica and explores a futuristic world where hallucinations have replaced reality.<\/p>\n<p>Clips were recently screened at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartoon-media.eu\/MOVIE\/\">Cartoon Movie festival<\/a> in Lyon back in March where Folman explained that the film would have some notable differences to the book. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bOJ_6CMask8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A French-German co-production, live action footage will be shot in the US this summer and it will star <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0358316\/\">Jon Hamm<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000705\/\">Robin Wright<\/a> (playing an analog of herself).<\/p>\n<p>The budget is a reported $11m (8m Euros), with half of that going on the animation (which is being done in France) and the release is scheduled for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0284369\/\">Ari Folman<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ku7pBr\">Listen to our 2008 interview with Ari Folman about Waltz With Bashir<\/a><br \/>\n> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Futurological_Congress\">More on The Continental Congress novel at Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ari Folman&#8217;s next film will be an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem&#8217;s sci-fi novel The Futurological Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,2],"tags":[613,2051],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}